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Freed Al-Jazeera Journalist Looks Forward To 'The Little Things'

2:56pm February 02, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

Australian Peter Greste, who spent more than a year in an Egyptian prison, was freed on Sunday. He says he remains concerned about his still-jailed Al-Jazeera colleagues.

Allison Begalman, a student at the University of Southern California, wears goggles and headphones to experience a virtual mortar strike on civilians in Aleppo, Syria.

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Virtual Games Try To Generate Real Empathy For Faraway Conflict

1:12pm February 02, 2015

by James Delahoussaye

A corner of the video game industry is covering the news through immersive experiences. One game transports players into the middle of the Syrian civil war.

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Egypt Frees One Al-Jazeera Journalist From Prison

12:04pm February 02, 2015

Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste will be deported to Australia. He is one of three Al-Jazeera journalists who were arrested in December 2013. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Leila Fadel in Cairo.

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Egypt Frees 1 Of 3 Jailed Al Jazeera Journalists

7:52pm February 01, 2015

by Steve Mullis

Australian journalist Peter Greste was detained in December 2013 and imprisoned in June. He is being deported, but the fate of his two colleagues is unknown.

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Argentina's Foreign Minister Hector Timerman on Jan. 15 shows a letter he said was sent in 2013 to Interpol informing it of an agreement reached with Iran's government to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association that killed

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Argentine Official Says He Sought Cooperation With Iran, Not Cover-Up

3:35pm February 01, 2015

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

In an exclusive interview with NPR, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman says he met Iranian officials as part of the effort to find out who was behind the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center.

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Jordan Waits On Fate Of Its ISIS Prisoner

11:39am February 01, 2015

The prisoner swap between the self-proclaimed Islamic State and Jordan is at a standstill. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to reporter Taylor Luck about how Jordanians are reacting to the hostage situation.

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Video Appears To Show Beheading Of Japanese Hostage Kenji Goto

7:10pm January 31, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The SITE Intelligence group has acquired footage that appears to show the execution of the Japanese journalist a week after another Japanese hostage was killed by the so-called Islamic State.

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Islamic State Blames Coalition Airstrikes For Losing Kobani

6:59pm January 31, 2015

by Scott Neuman

For the first time, the extremist group acknowledges its defeat earlier this week in the heavily contested Syrian border town.

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Recent Attacks Highlight Difficulty In Combating ISIS

6:51pm January 31, 2015

ISIS militants continued their deadly attacks this week, evidence that the campaign by Iraq and the U.S. to defeat the group could take years. NPR's Arun Rath talks with correspondent Alice Fordham.

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Efforts To Free Japanese ISIS Captive 'Deadlocked'

3:38am January 31, 2015

A top Japanese diplomat says indirect negotiations to free a captive journalist from the militant Islamic State group have reached a "state of deadlock."